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A recent online discussion over what defines a "Superhero", inspired me to take those ideas and drag them out as a journal post here. It started with me discussing that while the main character of my comic, "The Wellkeeper", has incredible powers that she uses in heroic ways, I don't think of her as a "superhero". If you simply that the word itself and break it down, it's definition should simply be that. A hero with "super" abilities.  Andi it's implied in the term that these abilities should be beyond the scope of a normal human. But that's not the cultural definition of a superhero, is it? Batman is called a "superhero" in spite of havin

There, did that get your attention? Is this little rant actually about Rob Granito or the nonsense that surrounded him this past weekend at Megacon? Not really. In fact, it's only a part of the inspiration of perhaps the TONE of what I feel like saying here. For those of you who need some back story, there was a lot of invented drama surrounding the artist Rob Granito at this past weekend's Orlando Megacon. Rob Granito is an artist known for swiping the work of others and passing it off as his own with almost no alterations or true creative spin of his own. Apparently, the internet finally noticed what those of us who populate artist's alley

When I'm not working on freelance projects or commissions, I try and keep up with my latest comic, "The Wellkeeper". As I write this, I'm within 3 pages of being done with the 5th issue on schedule and I love working on this book. And like a lot of artists out there, I like to imagine what my cast of characters might look like if drawn by my favorite artists. And that's what this post is. My silly little wish list of artists I'd kill to see draw Zoe, Sebastian, the Withering Man or any of the cast of "the Wellkeeper". Now, in all reality, I could probably keep typing names until my fingers fell off, but I'm limiting this list to 10 names in n